US PATENT CLASS 16
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 16/
This class includes specific articles of hardware not otherwise classified. It comprises such articles as carpet-fasteners, door-hangers, sash-cord fasteners, sash-weights, hinges, door checks and closures, sash-balances, furniture-casters, etc.
Hardware articles such as nails, screws, staples, bolts, and rivets are classified as in References to Other Classes, below.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
7, Compound Tools, appropriate subclasses for compound tools.
59, Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making,
78+, for chains.
70, Locks, appropriate subclasses for locks.
81, Tools, appropriate subclasses for tools. 292, Closure Fasteners, appropriate subclasses for bolt
elements and latching devices not combined with lock structure and door checks of the door-bracing type.
301, Land Vehicles: Wheels and Axles,
5.3+, for skate wheels.
384, Bearings, appropriate subclasses for plain and anti-friction bearings, per se.
411, Expanded, Threaded, Driven, Headed, Tool-Deformed or Locked-Threaded Fastener appropriate subclasses for fastening elements of the kinds provided for therein.
GLOSSARY:
HINGE AXIS
Any axis about which a hinged member* rotates during operation of the hinge.
HINGED MEMBER
Any device or portion thereof (e.g., closure, seat back, etc.) which is adapted to be swingably connected by a hinge to another device or portion thereof (e.g., frame, box, sill, etc.).
HINGE PIN An elongated rodlike element about which a hinged member* swings (e.g., "pintle").
LEAF
A rod or platelike portion by which the hinge is adapted to be secured to a hinged member*.